Gig Young’s Untimely Retirement

Gig Young, while shooting the scene of Waco Kid being drunk and fooling around, actually got hammered out of his mind. The scene being referred to here was where Waco Kid drunkenly hangs from his bunk and asks Bart if he is black. But because he was drunk out of his mind, Young started behaving in an unruly manner and so he had to be let go by the studio and look for a new actor for the role.